Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © NCSHA Annual Conference Information Technology: HFA’s Greatest Hits Nebraska Profile Report – Creating the Interactive “Nebraska Dashboard©” Jody Cook, Accounting Manager September 28, 2015

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Program Beginnings NIFA’s mission to provide housing related technical assistance to partners throughout the state We think we need housing.. We need housing but are not sure what type – Rental, Homeownership, Elderly.... Our Community is growing..we think.. We want to do something but don’t know where to start..

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Program Beginnings How could we help? What information is needed so they can accomplish their goals? What information is available? Where is the information? How do we access it?

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Program Beginning Goals Solid, Comprehensive database Enable understanding of existing conditions and trends to: –Demographics –Economics –Housing stock –Utilization thereof

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Program Beginnings NE Realtor Data NE Property & Tax Assessment NE Dept of Motor Vehicles Census Data (ACS Data) NE Dept of Education NE Bureau of Labor Statistics NE Dept of Revenue Rental Vacancy Survey*

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © – Commissioned Western Economic Services (WES) to consolidate the data Program Beginnings NE Realtor Data NE Property & Tax Assessment NE Dept of Motor Vehicles Census Data (ACS Data) Rental Vacancy Survey NE Bureau of Labor Statistics NE Dept of Revenue NE Dept of Education

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Program Beginnings 2003 – First Ne Profile Report released (2 Volumes – State & 93 Counties 1,038 page pdf)

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Program Growth Timeline 2002 – Engaged WES & Rental Vacancy survey creation added cities to data 2011/2012 Dashboard discussion – V1 & V2- Desktop application - Basic tables and charting capabilities – no interactivity, printing, downloading Still a voluminous pdf document

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Program Growth Timeline 2013 – Online decision/Hosting decision – Ported over to HTML & JavaScript – added interactive features, copyrighted – Launched to public 2014 – interactive mapping, additional data concepts –Rental Vacancy survey growth – Covering 31 cities

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Program Growth 2014 –2015 – data downloading capabilities, interactive bubble cloud feature, outside resources tab 2016 – Enhanced look, Interactive tour, historical pdf Profiles, choose your own region feature (beta)

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Program Recap Current, Verifiable, Relevant data encompassing all 93 counties and 31 largest cities 13 Years of data and trends Easy to export or print for users creating reports, grant applications or charts

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Current Dashboard

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Website Statistics Dashboard stats from launch in 2013 until May 21, 2015 –3,243 Sessions –2,394 Unique users –127 Hours of user time –Average session of 2:22 minutes –24 Countries, 46 states, 378 cities – Report downloads/20 Data export requests

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Program Impact Comment from a Community & Regional Planner, Tim M. Keelan - “The Nebraska Interactive Dashboard serves Hanna:Keelan in many facets of our planning research efforts. The availability and ease of accessibility to demographic, economic, and housing data is important not only to consultants and community partners, but to local governments and the general public.”

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Demo Link to site Summary of Demo information - County Housing Analysis doc.docx County Housing Analysis doc.docx 2016 Beta Demo of interactive tour

Nebraska Investment Finance Authority © 2015 Nebraska Profile Report Contact: Larry Jablonski Host Partner: Western Economic Services